This year, PNWA managed to snag bestselling crime novelist Lisa Gardner as one of the dinner keynote speakers, for this year's summ...

While I don't have anything sell-able in a monetary sense, I think any writer that grabs a reader's attention has, in effect, ...

Since all my work can be considered "short" by way of word count, I decided to attend the Jump-Start a Short Story With These T...

I've been attending PNWA's Summer Conference for a few years now, so I thought it was high time to help out.  Prior to the conf...

(Image:  Stinz Charger: The War Stories , by Donna Barr) I was originally planning on attending a thriller/mystery panel hosted by se...

Well it's been a year since I attended the Writing Sex Scenes workshop and I still haven't done it yet.  By "it" I ...

Contrary to popular belief, writers don't subsist entirely on chocolate, coffee and alcohol.  While this might be true for some--ok...

  Literary agents aren't involved in international intrigue.  (Although, wouldn't that be cool if they were?).  Instead, they...

(Image:  James Stewart as P.J. McNeal in Call Northside 777 )  Research is a key element in historical wargaming.  Whether you're...

This was a first for PNWA (Pacific Northwest Writers Association).  Normally, the first day of their annual writers conference is primari...

Last week I attended PNWA's (Pacific Northwest Writers Association) 55th Annual Summer Conference, this year themed as, "Inspire...